Alberta unemployment hits 9%, highest in 22 years

WATCH ABOVE: Alberta's unemployment rate has hit its highest level in 22 years. And Calgary is leading the way with a jobless rate at a staggering 10.3%. Here's Jayme Doll with the numbers, but also how some are starting to find a silver lining.

More Alberta jobs were lost and more Albertans were looking for work in November, pushing the unemployment rate to the highest it has been in over 22 years.

Statistics Canada said, in Alberta, employment fell by 13,000 in November. At the same time, the number of job-seekers increased by over 11,000, pushing the unemployment rate up 0.5 percentage points to 9 per cent — the highest rate since July 1994.

The number show while the unemployment rate in Edmonton has dropped in the past three months (from 8 per cent in August to 6.8 per cent in November), more and more people in Calgary are losing their jobs.

Across the country, more people were employed in the finance, insurance, real estate and leasing industries, in information, culture and recreation, in the “other services” industry and in agriculture.

On the other hand, Statistics Canada said there were declines in construction, in manufacturing, as well as in transportation and warehousing.